Feedback: Extending drinking hours in Michigan a recipe for disaster

Oct. 12, 2013

The mere idea that extending bar hours by two hours will attract out-of-towners is a joke. Having the extra hours to get totally sloshed isn’t going to fill the state treasury, it will just add to the overcrowding in morgues. How many die needlessly because of drunken drivers each year? How will two extra hours of becoming drunk help in stopping the slaughter?

We complain constantly about the effects of alcohol, the destruction of families and how it ruins lives — so why do our leaders in Lansing think this will be a benefit? It’s just another ploy, another way of appearing concerned about business without a clue to the consequence.

Ronald Navickas

Shelby Twp

Don't believe the myth of global warming

Brian Dickerson’s Oct. 6 column “Warming up to climate change” is a futile attempt to create truth by popular vote or consensus. Truth is determined by looking at the facts and interpreting them by a process of reason. It does not matter how many Republicans/conservatives agree with the Democrats’ notion of man-made climate change. The only question is what is the truth?

Michael Neibel

Roseville

Don't go against will of people on medical pot

The voters of Michigan legalized the use of medical marijuana. Along comes a minority that has decided it needs to override the will of the people.

This isn’t democracy. I need someone to explain to me what the logic is, other than lawyers making more money and Attorney General Bill Schuette claiming he locked up more criminals — criminals like me with multiple sclerosis in the privacy of my home. Big criminal threat here.

Mike Scozzari

Center Line

Approve Belle Isle deal for future generations

If the Belle Isle lease deal between the City of Detroit and the state is not accepted, and it isn’t maintained and kept as a state park, people of the future would be denied the right to see the park in the state of pristine serenity to which it belongs.

I do believe, if the Belle Isle lease is accepted, that we are to see a brighter tomorrow and hopes of being able to save this beautiful place for future generations to come.